Adarq.org

I think we are going to see this more and more because what the media really doesn't like is disobedience and intelligence in combination.

This is imho the biggest war that has been going on in this world the last 3-4 thousand years. The 'media' is still winning, and that is why society and humanity is still a violent racist aggressive imperialistic conservative narrow minded pile of shit!

Quote from: vag on June 06, 2016, 04:33:28 am

Hey. Still here, last two weeks have been hectic at work. Drained me physically and mentally, didn't have courage or mood to workout. At the back of my head i also had the resting thing too,

ah damn. was probably a good thing that you got some rest in, after all, you consistently go hard. maybe your quads will be miraculously fixed too once you get back under the bar. :F

Yeah, that's how i fixed my quad a few years ago when i kept training around a bad strain for 8 months ( lololol ) , took a 3 months break, boom, fixed.

I like your concept about seeing resting as a prescribed training element, same concept with stretch/SMR. Not sure i can convince me yet but it could work. It's true after all, it is not a gimmick, it is just a different ( correct ) way of seeing it. If you are an athlete you have your coach to worry about that, but we are both the athlete and the coach, but we keep neglecting the latter.

---

Quote from: vag on June 06, 2016, 10:19:25 am

Yup, we interpret it differently. But you couldn't know. Well, 'courage' is a Greek word that indeed is originally used just as you described ( or as wikipedia describes ). Even the physical aspect of courage has to do with bravery, to deal with the physical limitation. However, in everyday Greek, we ( probably falsely ) also use it to just denote being too tired to do something, like so tired it takes bravery to overcome it, but not meaning the bravery literally. It is a way of being pompous about the tired statement. It is also most probably wrong if you ask a literature teacher, but it is still very common.

Also, this is kind of cool. I think both versions of the word are defined by the concept of willpower: you need willpower to push yourself to do something courageous, but you also need willpower to push yourself to train when you are really tired. So they're not so different after all.

Actually, it is not different versions, not even just synonyms, it is the exact same word. It is 'couragio' in Greek.
But you are right, it is all about will, the root of the word is 'heart' , here is the wiktionary entry :

Borrowing from Old French corage (French: courage), from Vulgar Latin *coraticum, from Latin cor ‎(“heart”). Distantly related to cardiac ‎(“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root.

Searched it a bit more. The greek wiktionary entry says the word has 2 definitions, quoting translated:
1. Tharos*
2. The physical and mental endurance you need in order to continue a difficult/painful effort.**
Example : I wakled 4 hours in good pace but i don't have the courage to carry on.

*This is a greek word for mental courage,  something like bravery but not exactly bravery since there is a different word for that.
**This second definition and example ( funny how wiktionary chose a training example ) is the one i had in mind. I don't see this definition in the English wiktionary page for courage.

So I used the word courage to express something that is correct in Greek with this word, but although it is the exact same word, it seems i can't use it to express the same thing in English.
Pretty cool!

---

Aaaaaand, here we go again!

Bodyweight@session : ~85.5kg
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none

T0DDDAY-BASED ALTERNATING GYM-TRACK SPLIT

Week #6
Gym day #1


HANG POWER CLEAN:
5@20kg
5@30kg
3@40kg
3@50kg
-Ok. Weight was light but body forgot the sequence.

ATG SQUAT:
5@20kg
5@30kg
5@40kg
5@50kg
5@60kg
5@70kg
-Very nice. Quads fresh of course. 5@70kg lightweight, able to do last rep with strict pause.
Didn't push it, gonna advance slow, relearn squat as i said last time.

BENCH PRESS:
5@60kg ( -2.5 kg )
5@60kg ( -2.5 kg )
5@60kg ( -2.5 kg )
15@45kg ( -5 kg ) , ( -2 reps )
-Nice.

DEAD HANG PULLUPS:
5@BW ( -2 reps )
5@BW ( -1 rep )
5@BW ( -1 rep )
LAT PULLDOWN: 15@130lbs ( -5 reps )
-Weak.

LEG PRESS CALF 'RAISE':
12@150lbs
12@200lbs
12@250lbs

What? I didn't. Are we interpreting courage differently? I am referring to physical courage. I meant i was too tired. What the fuck is wrong with that?

I think that the negs came from the distance between "he had the potential to become GOAT but blew it" and "i can't stand lbj.  never liked him one bit all this time."
I can agree with your analysis Chris. He did have the potential to be the new GOAT. And he blew it indeed, it is most probably too late now. And for a basketball lover, someone blowing that rare chance given by nature is a good reason to hate him.

BUT! His career* stats are : 50%FG , 34% 3P 7.2 rebounds 6.9 assists 1.7 steals .8 blocks, 27.2 points.

*CAREER stats guys, 1000 games / 13 years averaging almost 30 points and a triple double, in each and every one of those 1000 games. Come on!

You just can't dislike a this triple-double-averaging dude that randomly elevates his 270lbs body 40+ in the air off one foot. It is disliking one of nature's/evolution's best moments, you just can't.

Ok, thanks everyone for the insight!

19 May 2016

Bodyweight@session : ~86kg
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none

T0DDDAY-BASED ALTERNATING GYM-TRACK SPLIT

Week #5
Gym day #2

PUSH PRESS:
5@20kg
5@30kg
3@40kg
3@50kg
1@60kg , ties 
-Didn't push coz i didn't do them for 2 weeks. Went nice, 50kg triple was easier than previous times too.

ATG SQUAT:
5@20kg
5@30kg
5@40kg
5@50kg
5@60kg
3@70kg
2@80kg
-So i decided to relearn squat. Went off the cage, doing true ATG. Damn, it's a looong way down with 50cm/20'' shins and femurs.
Went good, 80kg felt better than the usual little-below-parallel squats that i do.
Also did various quad and hip flexor stretches between each and every set, this is a nice way to put some adequate stretching quantity in my life.

DIPS:
6@BW ( -2 reps )
6@BW
6@BW
PUSH-UPS to failure: 20 ( +2 reps )
-Little rusty from not doing them for 2 weeks. Nice pushup finisher.

DEAD HANG CHINUPS:
5@BW
5@BW
5@BW
CHEST SUPPORTED HORIZONTAL ROWS MACHINE: 18@40kg
-Decided to add some chinups. Movement was weird, haven't done them for 2 years or so. Crazy how much reversing grip changes things.

SLANT BENCH LEG RAISES:
14@BW
12@BW
-Damn hard.

45 DEGREE HYPEREXTENSIONS:
15@BW
15@BW
-Focused on driving movement with glutes and hamstrings. Felt it all at the back though, lol.

damn.. im not sure to be honest.

the sprint/bound work you're doing shouldn't be killing your strength, IMHO..  It should actually be helping it. Perhaps 1 rest day following the track workout, then lifting would have produced much better results? for example, your cns could just be too friend to lift the day after.

the thing that's weird is the "still broken part".. you just feel completely dead under the bar? that's also going to carry over to your hang power clean i'd imagine.. so if you're feeling dead and hitting near PR's on HPC, I imagine you probably have alot more in the tank.

but I really don't know.. the fact that you've been "dead" when it comes to squatting and such for so long, that's the odd thing.

perhaps you could try adding in the rest day prior to lifting.. and/or getting in extra calories the day prior.. also perhaps some caffeine? dno just something to try and get you out of this "broken/dead" feeling.

He's probably in some kind of chronic fatigue phase right now... reminds me of the Dan Pfaff "acute relieving syndrome" vs "chronic fatigue syndrome" antithesis.

Yes, it is not CNS, CNS is fine. Power movements feel great, i keep getting sprints and bounds lifetime PRs weekly, push press and HPC are pretty close to lifetime PRs too. Other weight exercises are fine too, i am having steady linear progress at everything. If i allowed this 2-3 kg weight gain to match the BW of those quoted PRS i am sure i would match and top them within a month or so.
It is all about quads and squat, there is this fatigue/soreness/slight pain feeling at both eccentric and concentric, around the sticking point ( half to quarter squat depth ), at the middle of vastus lateralis.
It is either some kind of chronic fatigue from the GPP program, too much tightness, OR , i am injured, i strained it somewhere in the way and didn't notice. I doubt the last one though.
I am leaning towards incredible tightness, i am still not stretching or doing anything about mobility/SMR at all. I've been going practically non-stop for 8 months, at pretty intense volume and intensity, on and off the weight room, yet i am stretching like once every 2 months. Duh!

16 May 2016

Bodyweight@session : n/a
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none

T0DDDAY-BASED ALTERNATING GYM-TRACK SPLIT

Week #5
Park day #1


Dynamic warmup

4 * standing broad jumps :
Best = ~2.1m
-Lower than lately.

3 * 4 DL bounds :
Best = ~9.45m , ties 
-Nice, because they felt crap.

3 * 60m @ 100% :
-Timed one, definitely below 10, nice.

1@150m @ 80% : ~30s
90s rest
1@150m @ 90% : ~27s
3 mins rest
1@150m @ 100% : ~low 24s , 

Was not a good day, felt uncoordinated. Also was very short on time, had to cut down volume. Still got PRs, great surprise.
Sprints felt different, in a good way, i felt I was bouncing of the floor. Feel good for even more.

Speaking of weed (I don't know what 420 means):

Same here, I was also wondering whats the connection between 420 and weed.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=420